1. Yevgenia Markovna Albats is a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, writer and radio host.
22 Facts About Yevgenia Albats
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In January 2004, Yevgenia Albats defended her doctoral dissertation in political science at Harvard University.
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Yevgenia Albats was born in Moscow, in Russia when it was the epicenter of the Soviet Union, to a Jewish family.
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Yevgenia Albats' father, Mark Yefremovich Yevgenia Albats, was a member of a GRU military reconnaissance team during World War II, residing in German-occupied Ukraine.
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Yevgenia Albats graduated from the Department of Journalism of Moscow State University in 1980.
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Yevgenia Albats started her professional work as a freelance reporter with Komsomolskaya Pravda, while she was still a senior at the Moscow State University's Department of Journalism.
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Yevgenia Albats received the Golden Pen Award from the Russian Union of Journalists for exposing poor conditions in maternity wards in 1989.
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Yevgenia Albats was fired from Izvestia in 1997 after she had completed a major article exposing alleged illegal activities by the FSB.
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Yevgenia Albats was restored to her position by a court decision on 15 March 1997.
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In 2007, Yevgenia Albats became a deputy chief editor of The New Times magazine.
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Yevgenia Albats was a Fellow at Harvard University's Nieman Foundation for Journalism in 1993.
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In 2004 Yevgenia Albats was awarded a PhD in political science from Harvard University.
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In 1992 Yevgenia Albats was appointed a consultant for a Russian Duma commission to examine KGB involvement in Soviet coup attempt of 1991.
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Yevgenia Albats described the KGB as a leading political force rather than a security organization.
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Yevgenia Albats wrote that KGB directors Lavrenty Beria, Yuri Andropov and Vladimir Kryuchkov manipulated Communist Party leaders.
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Yevgenia Albats asserted that FSB, the successor of KGB, became a totalitarian party.
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In 1992 Yevgenia Albats published an article in Izvestia quoting documents from KGB archives that David Karr was "a competent KGB source" who "submitted information to the KGB on the technical capabilities of the United States and other capitalist countries".
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Yevgenia Albats cited KGB notes describing transfers of money to communist parties of United States, Finland, France, Italy, as well as "commercial dealings" of Rajiv Gandhi's family with Soviet foreign trade.
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Yevgenia Albats learned that the KGB employed the future Russian Patriarch Alexius II as an agent under a nickname Drozdov.
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Yevgenia Albats, who is Jewish, is a leader in the Russian Jewish Congress.
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Yevgenia Albats noted that most FSB members remain in the "acting reserve" even when they formally leave the organization.
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In 2006, Yevgenia Albats criticized Anna Arutunyan who had written an article in The Moscow News about the murdered journalist Anna Politkovskaya.